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The idea about cooking of "Al Fogher" restaurant has much to do with the eternal challenge of each modern chef: harmonizing a proper nutrition with a good taste. To do this we have recovered to the work of daily's dishes preparation, the nobility of raw ingredients that large retail food commerce enterprises have relegated in the back burner. Even if they got the great merit of ensuring standard nutritional values and food hygiene, at the same time they have erased a fundamental portion of people's memory and identity. Trough the employment of territorial and local farmers products we want return the heritage of an extraordinary and unique diet: the Mediterranean one.

Deep in the heart of Sicily, "Al Fogher" restaurant oversees the sense of fine dining and the ways in which the senses enjoy of it. Its essence refers to the philosophy of the conductors, alternating gaps in the contemporary gastronomic creativity with wraparound divings in the finest traditional cuisine, offering to customers the alchemical rediscovery of the most authentic taste. Featuring a wine cellar with over five hundred labels, for over twenty years it is considered by experts as one of the ten best restaurants in the region.

The restaurant was made from an ancient railroad house placed on a rail tracks actually removed, bringing from Dittaino Station to Caltagirone. This choice, done to preserve the heritage and memories of territory, has converted the little station near the rails – on which, until 1971, the sulphur coming from Grottacalda's mines was carried away – in a friendly and relaxing ambient where pleasantly host friends and guest to taste some of the best dishes of sicilian cuisine.